As the yearbook of the Institute of Contemporary British History, this annual review will act both as an analysis of contemporary Britain, and as a record of events and developments. Building into a set of yearbooks, "Contemporary Britain" will become a useful tool for contemporary historians, researchers and librarians. The changing state of government, politics, the economy and society will be examined, and it will be introduced by a critical evaulation of current developments in recent British history and changes in the world in general. The review will contain 41 survey essays averaging 3,000 words each, covering different aspects of contemporary development. These essays will aim to both interpret and review relevant legislation, reports, initiatives, speeches and events of the past year.

Contemporary Britain an Annual Review

Catterall, Peter

Basil Blackwell, Inc.

Maintaining the stability of Europe has been a traditional aim of Britain's policy towards Europe. Given the pressure for revision of the status quo from discontented powers such as Germany and Italy, this became an increasingly difficult task during the inter-war period. Britain, moreover, had to confront the threats to the stability of the continent that these powers presented, in the context of the concerns of her global, and increasingly over-stretched empire. The chapters of this book explores the nature of the British response given the constraints upon policy. Events on the continent in this period did not just have an impact on policy. A second theme of the book is the way in which these and other new developments such as ecumenism, were re-shaping British thinking about Europe and European unity during the inter-war years. Finally, the book explores the impact of Britain's relations with Europe during this period, and examines British thinking about Europe and the development of the idea of European unity in these years. It should prove valuable for the growing number of courses on the European unity movement, and should appeal to those interested in the background to, and British policy during World War II.

Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918-45

History

Leicester Univ Pr

Did the Labour Party, in Morgan Phillips' famous phrase, owe 'more to Methodism than Marx'? Were the founding fathers of the party nurtured in the chapels of Nonconformity and shaped by their emphases on liberty, conscience and the value of every human being in the eyes of God? How did the Free Churches, traditionally allied to the Liberal Party, react to the growing importance of the Labour Party between the wars? This book addresses these questions at a range of levels: including organisation; rhetoric; policies and ideals; and electoral politics. It is shown that the distinctive religious setting in which Labour emerged indeed helps to explain the differences between it and more Marxist counterparts on the Continent, and that this setting continued to influence Labour approaches towards welfare, nationalisation and industrial relations between the wars. In the process Labour also adopted some of the righteousness of tone of the Free Churches.This setting was, however, changing. Dropping their traditional suspicion of the State, Nonconformists instead increasingly invested it with religious values, helping to turn it through its growing welfare functions into the provider of practical Christianity. This nationalisation of religion continues to shape British attitudes to the welfare state as well as imposing narrowly utilitarian and material tests of relevance upon the churches and other social institutions. The elevation of the State was not, however, intended as an end in itself. What mattered were the social and individual outcomes. Socialism, for those Free Churchmen and women who helped to shape Labour in the early twentieth century, was about improving society as much as systems.

Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939: Radicalism, Righteousness and Religion

Europe

Bloomsbury Academic

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Contemporary Britain an Annual Review

Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918-45

Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939: Radicalism, Righteousness and Religion

Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939: Radicalism, Righteousness and Religion